#Probability

The New Financial System, a thread: 1/7) The current monetary policy has weighed down the financial system for so long, there’s no end in site, no line is going to
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I have been into machine learning for 6 months and I can totally relate to how a beginner feels when starting out with it. Being introduced to heavy words like
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A thread for fellow statistical analysis plan nerds (warning: math ahead).From Pfizer's protocol, vaccine efficacy will be estimated by the incidence rate ratio. A tutorial on how this corresponds to
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The further into the winter we get the stranger that "keep universities open" sounds. They are not, meaningfully, open now. Collectively there's a cigarette paper between what's happening now and
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Graphic presentation of data & understanding of stats can be a matter of life & death. Just learned something: Those Hurricane Maps Don’t Mean What You Think They Mean -
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I’m going to post a synopsis of things I’ve learned to date about miracles. God can do miracles but people can do miracles as well. There is no gift of
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As you extend testing you should move from riskiest populations to less risky (due to more tests). But if you chase hotspots & wait until things are bad to test,
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My predictions for Unus Annus's Ending, a thread: 1. It's going to be livestream. 4 hours, 8 hours, 12 hours, or just 1 or 2, I'm confident it's livestream, knowing
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Absolutely cool thing I learnt today. There's an IIT Bombay Grad, University of Michigan resident prof by the name Divakar Vishwanath. He has a mathematical constant in his name. Like
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1/ Inhalation dose occurs in both the near field (close contact) and far field in the same indoor space. It is reasonable to assume that near field concentrations in the
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"Our cross sectional study in both COVID-19 out- and inpatients strongly suggests that daily smokers have a very much lower probability of developing symptomatic or severe SARS-CoV-2 infection as compared
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Persuasion Hacks for Persuading own mind Persuading others Level your mind up Level your income up//THREAD// Hack #1 To put it simply, the focusing effect is the tendency
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1/ Public health messaging & #scicomm ≠ therapeutic relationship. Autonomy depends on informed consent. Publicly, we can inform, but ultimately the individual makes a choice. Public misinformation distorts the ability
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of many shocking things I've read about the A level cluster, this is, I think, the worst.https://ffteducationdatalab.org.uk/2020/08/a-level-results-2020-how-have-grades-been-calculated/ if your Maths A level class is predicted .2% A*s,
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i have no idea what people mean when they say queer m/f pairings are basically straight because… listen. if you’re a queer who has been surrounded by cis straight people
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1/ THREAD: Donald Trump's pupils are intermittently, bilaterally, dilated — often very widely dilated. At other times his pupils are normal (this is key). This pattern is longstanding (decades) and
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